I tend to agree. People sued reporters for defamation long before the Gawker case, just follow most of what ends up on Popehat.

That being said, this sort of asshat-ery, Gawker or not, shows how important journalistic protections are in the first place. The legal system shouldn’t be a club to silence reporters, especially when these sources are party to the events that transpired.

I still don’t understand this tactic. Does is ever work? 1 time out of 100? I mean, it sounds like a pretty shit/stupid method where not only do you creep out 99%+ of the people, but now they got compromising pics of you.

How can this dickhead imagine he’ll be successful? Surely all it takes to shut down his bullshit fake outrage is for one of these dick pick recipients to whip out their phone. AFAIK it’s non-trivial to fake a MMS.

A dozen sources is impressive, but if they remain anonymous it won’t help Ali in court. You only need a couple of them to testify and then Bolling’s defense will resort to questioning the definition of “unsolicited” (and perhaps the definition “penis” too.)